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Doing Enterprise-Architecture: A Maturity-Model Guide to Architecture Development
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Doing Enterprise-Architecture: A Maturity-Model Guide to Architecture Development

by Tom Graves, Slade Beard
October 2025
Intermediate to advanced
641 pages
16h 37m
English
Apress
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T. Graves, S. BeardDoing Enterprise-Architecturehttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-1757-1_12

12. Step 5: Interact with the enterprise

Tom Graves1   and Slade Beard2
Flow chart illustrating organizational interaction levels and processes. On the left, five levels are listed: Level 1 (Ad-hoc) "Ready for action," Level 2 (Repeatable) "Set out the stall," Level 3 (Defined) "Interact with the market," Level 4 (Managed) "Interact with the enterprise," and Level 5 (Optimised) "Engage everyone in architecture." The foundation is "Create capability for change." Emphasis is placed on the block labeled "Step 5: Interact with the enterprise." On the right, a layered structure shows interactions: "shared-enterprise," "market," and "transaction," with entities like "supplier’s supplier," "supplier," "organisation," "customer," and "customer’s customer." Arrows indicate "inside-in," "inside-out," and "outside-in" interactions, with "internal services" at the base. The chart emphasizes creating capability and capacity for change.
In Step 1, we identified the boundary between “inside” and “outside” for the organization, and established the vision, values, and other criteria that would enable effective ad-hoc decisions.

In Step 2, we looked inside-in, to identify and design the infrastructures that would enable our organization ...

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